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Manage a customer record

Every customer's contact info and address in one place.

Before you start

  • Customer name

    Use the household or company name your team expects to search.

  • A usable contact

    Have at least one dependable phone number or email address.

  • The billing or site address

    Add the location used to connect the customer to job work.

Follow the task on screen.

The FL Permit Pay Customers page, showing sample customer records with the New customer and Import customers controls in the header.
  1. Step 1. New customerOpens the Add a customer panel on this page.
  2. Step 2. Import customersBulk intake from a spreadsheet or another system.
  1. Marker 1 on the screenshot

    Open the intake panel

    Select New customer. The Add a customer panel opens on this same page. You are not taken to a separate form.

    Done whenThe Add a customer fields appear below the header.

  2. Not on this screen

    Enter a contact your office can actually use

    In the panel that opened, fill Customer name with the household or company, then give at least one working phone number or email address and the billing or site address.

    Done whenFL Permit Pay accepts the record and lists it in the collection.

  3. Marker 2 on the screenshot

    Bring an existing customer list in

    If the customers already exist somewhere else, use Import customers instead of typing them again.

    Done whenThe import screen opens and shows what it matched before anything is saved.

  4. Not on this screen

    Open the record to connect it to work

    Narrow the list with Search customers, then open the customer to see their jobs, proposals and contact history in one place.

    Done whenThe customer record opens with the work already linked to it.

You are finished when

The customer is ready to connect to a job

The saved record has a usable contact and address and appears in Customers.

Troubleshooting

FL Permit Pay flags a possible duplicate.

Open the existing record and compare the name, contact, and address before creating another customer.

The record is visible but cannot be changed.

Ask an organization owner for customers.manage access.